Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) was one of the key thinkers and
reformers of modern Islam who has influenced both liberal and
fundamentalist Muslims today. 'Abdul-Baha (1844-1921) was the son
of Baha'ullah (1817-1892), the founder of the Baha'i Faith; a new
religion which began as a messianic movement in Shii Islam, before
it departed from Islam. Oliver Scharbrodt offers an innovative and
radically new perspective on the lives of these two major religious
reformers in 19th century Middle East by placing both figures into
unfamiliar terrain. While one would classify 'Abdul-Baha, leader of
a messianic movement which claims to depart from Islam, as an
exponent of heresy in Islam, 'Abduh is perceived as an orthodox
Sunni reformer. This book, however, argues against the assumption
that both represent two extremely opposite expressions of Islamic
religiosity. It shows that both were influenced by similar
intellectual and religious traditions of Islam and that both
participated in the same discussions on the reform of Islam in the
19th century. Islam and the Baha'i Faith provides new insights into
the Islamic background of the Baha'i Faith and into 'Abduh's own
association with so-called heretical movements in Islam.
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